Berlin, Germany, Dec. 20, 1963: A woman’s walk down a Berlin street on a cold day is made even more depressing by the presence of the two-year-old Berlin Wall. In later years, buildings near the ...

The Berlin Wall toppled 35 years ago. First, the world looked on with awe, and then the disbelief gave way to jubilation. From Aug. 13, 1961, to Nov. 9, 1989, a major European city was disfigured with ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! A 2 1/2 minute clip of President John F. Kennedy's anti-communist Cold War "Ich ben ein Berliner" speech on June 26, 1963 is shown, two years after ...

Twenty-five years ago Sunday, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev refused to use force when thousands of people from East and West converged to pull down the Berlin Wall. He taught us all a great lesson: ...

The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 completely separated citizens who had previously been able to travel freely between East and West Germany. Kelly Hignett, a doctor of history, shares the ...

Germany's infamous symbol of division, the Berlin Wall, split West Berlin — an isolated enclave of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) — from East Berlin, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) for ...